Sustainable Healthcare Architecture

by Guenther, Robin; Vittori, Gail

• ISBN13: 9781118086827
• ISBN10: 1118086821
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-07-22
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

A thoroughly updated edition of the key guide for the design of sustainable health care facilities, Sustainable Healthcare Architecture covers the design of hospitals, as well as ambulatory care, wellness centers, subacute care, and rehabilitation centers. The new edition features all new project case studies from North America and other countries, and includes new guest contributions on a range of sustainable design topics related to healthcare facilities. LEED for Healthcare, the new rating system specific to this building type, and the online Green Guide for Health Care are also addressed.

Author Biography

Robin Guenther, FAIA, LEED AP, a principal with Perkins + Will in New York City, is a leader in the design of sustainable, high-perfonnance healing environments. In 2005, she received The Center for Health Design's Changemaker Award for her efforts to improve and support change in the healing environment. Guenther served on the 20 I 0 AlA Guidelines for Construction of Hospitals and Health Care Facilities Revision Committee, and is on the advisory board of GreenSource magazine.

Gail Vittori, LEED AP, is codirector of the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, an internationally recognized nonprofit design, research, and policy organization in Austin, Texas, where she has worked since 1979. She has served as chair of the national board of directors ofthe U.S. Green Building Council and on the advisory board of Environmental Building News. Vittori received the 2002 Presidential Award for Leadership in Federal Energy Management and was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. She was named a Green Innovator by Time magazine in 2007. Together, Guenther and Vittori serve on the LEED for Health Care Core Committee and were both instrumental in developing the Green Guide for Health Care.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION

Key Sustainability Indicators and Infographic ‘13

PART I: CONTEXT

1 DESIGN AND STEWARDSHIP

Essay

Living Buildings and a Restorative Future
Jason F. McLennan

2 THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN HEALTH

Essays

Where we heal: the importance of healthcare buildings to our health and the planet's
Aaron Bernstein

Active Design:  Converging Design Efforts to Promote Environmental Sustainability and Address Today’s Leading Causes of Death
Karen K. Lee and Joyce S. Lee

3 ECOLOGY AND MEDICINE

Essay

Transforming Healthcare
Gary Cohen

4 NATURE AND HEALING

PART II: ACTUALIZING THE VISION

5 IMPROVING PERFORMANCE

Essays

ENERGY STAR®:  It’s Not Just a Score.  It’s a Goal and a Strategy
Clark Reed

Targeting 100!
Heather Burpee and Joel Loveland

The PBT-Free Hospital
Tom Lent

Case Studies

1 Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas, Austin, TX

2 OHSU Center for Health and Healing, Portland, OR

3 Peace Island Medical Center, Friday Harbor, WA

4 Sherman Hospital, Elgin, IL

5 Kiowa County Memorial Hospital, Greensburg, KA

6 Kohinoor Hospital, Mumbai, India

7 The Dyson Centre for Neonatal Care, Royal United Hospital, Bath, England

8 St. Mary’s Hospital Sechelt Addition, Sechelt, BC, Canada

9 New KarolinskaSolna University Hospital, Stockholm County, Sweden

10 UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay, San Francisco, CA

11 Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, Palo Alto, CA

6 MEASURING VALUE

Essay

LEED-certified Hospitals: Perspectives on Capital Cost Premiums and Operational Benefits
Breeze Glazer

7 LESSONS FROM HEALTH SYSTEMS
System Profiles

The UK National Health Service, Cambridge, England

Partners HealthCare, Boston, MA

Providence Health & Services, Renton, WA

Gundersen Health System, LaCrosse, WI

Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA

Case Studies

12 Mittal Children’s Medical Centre, London, England

13 The Bluestone Unit, Craigavon Area Hospital, Craigavon, Northern Ireland

14 New South West Acute Hospital, Enniskillen, Northern Ireland

15 The Lunder Building, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

16 Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, MA

17 Providence Newberg Medical Center, Newberg, OR

18 Providence St. Peter Hospital, Olympia, WA

19 GundersenLaCrosse Hospital Addition, LaCrosse, WI

20 Kaiser Small Hospital Big Idea Competition, Prototype

PART III: SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE TODAY

8 A GLOBAL SURVEY

Case Studies

21 Akershus University Hospital, Loreskøg, Norway

22 Butaro Hospital, Burera District, Rwanda

23 Deventer Ziekenhuis, Deventer, The Netherlands

24 First People’s Hospital, Shunde District, Foshan City, Guangdong Province, People’s Republic of China

25 Hospital Universitario San Vincente de Paul, Rionegro, Colombia

26 KhooTeckPuat Hospital, The Republic of Singapore

27 Portadown Health and Care Centre, Portadown, Northern Ireland

28 REHAB Centre for Spinal Cord and Brain Injuries, Basel, Switzerland

29 Reina Sofia Foundation Alzheimer Centre, Ensanche de Vallecas, Madrid, Spain

30 The new Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

31 Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL

32 Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery, Soba (Khartoum), Sudan

33 Santa Lucia University General Hospital, Cartagena, Spain

34 St. Bartholomew’s and The Royal London Hospitals, London, England

35 Swedish Medical Center, Issaquah, WA

36 YsbytyAneurin Bevan (Aneurin Bevan Hospital), Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, Wales

PART IV: VISIONING THE FUTURE

9 A NEW LANGUAGE OF FORM

Essay

Doubling Daylight
Ray Pradinuk

Case Studies

37 Martini Hospital, Groningen, The Netherlands

38 Arras Hospital Centre, Arras, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France

39 Pediatric and Cardiac Center of the Innsbruck University Clinic, Innsbruck, Austria

40 Helsingør Psychiatric Clinic, Helsingør (Elsinore), Denmark

41 Rhine Ordinance Barracks Medical Center Replacement, Kaiserslautern, Germany

42 Ng Teng Fong General Hospital and Jurong Community Hospital, The Republic of Singapore

43 Nanaimo Regional General Hospital Emergency Department Addition, Nanaimo, BC, Canada

44 Seattle Children’s Bellevue Clinic, Bellevue, WA

45 Pictou Landing Mi’Kmaq Community Health Centre, Trenton, Nova Scotia, Canada

46 Kenya Women’s and Children’s Wellness Centre, Nairobi, Kenya

47 Tata Medical Centre Cancer Hospital, Kolkata, India

48 CBF [Centre pour le Bien-etre des Femmes] Women’s Health Centre, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

10 CREATING THE 21^st CENTURY HOSPITAL

Case Studies

49 The Ubuntu Centre, Zwide Township, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

50 Jubilee Gardens Health Centre and Library, London, England

51 Old Town Recovery Center, Portland, OR

52 Waldron Health Centre, Lewisham, South London, England

53 Mirebalais National Teaching Hospital, Mirebalais, Haiti

54 Embassy Medical Center, Colombo, Sri Lanka

55 All Ukrainian Health Protection Centre for Mothers and Children, Kiev, Ukraine